A. 1590
B. 1591
C. 1592
D. 1593
Related Mcqs:
- Between what time period did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor ?
A. between1579 and 1583
B. between1585 and 1592
C. between1579 and 1587
D. between1580 and 1591 - Who declared him as Britain’s greatest dramatist in 1598 ?
A. Queen Elizabeth
B. Francis Meres, a lawyer
C. Burbage, an actor
D. King James - Famous Irish poet and dramatist is______________?
A. W.B. Yeats
B. L. Tolstoy
C. A. Pope
D. H.G. Wells - According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?
A. Thomas More.
B. Francis Bacon.
C. Earl of Oxford.
D. John Shakespeare. - In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?
A. Marlowe
B. Swift
C. Oxford
D. Bacon - Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?
A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
D. None of the above - According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?
A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt. - The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
A. The Taming of the Shrew
B. As you Like it
C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
D. Titus Andronicus - Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557 ?
A. Thomas Nah
B. Thomas lodge
C. Thomas Kyd
D. Thomas Hardy - After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five